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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 31 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Did the authors just leave it up to us to figure out the X axis?

Also, I notice "comics" skews different from "manga". Interesting.

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[–] suff@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Male-Female Log Odds Ratio

It means log(males/females). Base 10 I suppose (not relevant to the visual)

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

I am really dying to know what author of the graphic thought is advantage of such scale instead of -100 to 100...

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[–] suff@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago*

It's probabilities. So they essentially talk about a range of decimal comma positions, from 0.01 to 100.0 or 1% to 10000%

They could have used plain counts as well though. (Not sure about the visual gradient though, as I suppose these things are impacted by Zipfs law, etc.)

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social -5 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

I think its actually gender color coded. The "male" side leans blue-ish, with the "female" side leaning towards pink.

Using controversial forced gender roles colors as a axis is certainly a choice.

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[–] suff@piefed.social 6 points 5 months ago

The whole study (behavior+gender correlation) is biased. I didn't see the colors on the other screen anyway.

For the case you had issues with understanding the log thing:

log(males/females) = -2 means 1:100
log(males/females) = -1 means 1:10
log(males/females) = 0 means 1:1
log(males/females) = 1 means 10:1

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 1 point 5 months ago

And my partial color blindness gets in my way again....

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Manga is actually pretty gender neutral nowadays, but that's probably because "manga" is really a supset. For every sci-fi/fantasy/superhero manga there is a romance/magical-girl/etc manga. So basically manga contains a subset of all the same genres we see in the diagram.

Additionally by breaking up graphic novels, comics, and manga you're probably splitting the "male" readership up more letting manga have a "female" bias.

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